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The Office of Climate Change, Office of the President takes pleasure in making available to you our second issue of the OCC Newsletter “Focus on the LCDS”. We wish you pleasant reading and enlist your assistance in the furtherance of our awareness efforts, in passing the Newsletter along to friends and colleagues. Office of Climate Change

The Office of Climate Change is pleased to introduce its news letter "Focus on the LCDS". We invite you to become acquainted with the progress of Guyana's Low Carbon Development Strategy through this newsletter

This 3rd edition of the LCDS Newsletter coincides with the release of a March 2013 update on the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). After four years of charting a new course to a green economy, the LCDS Update of March 2013 evaluates the progress made so far, the experience and lessons learnt in model-building, and elaborates plans to 2015 with focus on additional priority areas which include climate resilience; adaptation and water management; facilitating additional investments in high potential low carbon sectors; hinterland and Amerindian peoples development; a Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity studies and exploring a Clean Transportation Programme.

This 4th edition of the LCDS Newsletter is coming at a time when we’ve just commenced the process of our performance review to trigger a 4th payment under the Guyana Norway Partnership. Based on our Self-Assessment Report, prepared with support from PricewaterhouseCoppers of the UK, we are confident that having met the majority of the requirements of the Joint Concept Note (JCN) of the Guyana-Norway Agreement will put us in a good position to qualify to receive a 4th payment from the Government of Norway.